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In the fall, I love mushroom picking. It's like that joke: "I can't decide what I like more—picking mushrooms or just slowly walking through the forest with a knife in my hand." You can boil, fry, or dry the mushrooms you've picked (and then make soups with). A friend of mine loves making mushroom pâté… it's delicious, but I haven't made it myself yet... 
Apple cider vinegar is a type of vinegar, a natural preservative produced by fermenting apple juice. During the fermentation process, beneficial bacteria are formed, which convert the sugars in apple cider into alcohol. Then, during further fermentation, valuable acids are formed from the alcohol. Beneficial enzymes and probiotics are also formed during the fermentation process. How to prepare... 
This year was a bumper year for apples. Our young apple trees were absolutely covered in fruit. We ate our fill of delicious, fresh apples, straight from the trees, and shared them with family and friends. We made preserves from the apples—delicious honey jam and whole-apple compote. And when no one else wanted to eat the apples, and there were still some left over and they were starting to spoil, I decided... 
I've been canning so much this year that I've run out of jars. And buying new ones in our village is impossible. Besides, these were my last remaining tomatoes. As luck would have it, I had some leftover tomatoes in the garden—plum tomatoes and a few pink ones. Some of them were too small to be preserved whole... 
There are lazy dumplings, cabbage rolls, and so on, but last year I decided to make some lazy preserves for the winter. Georgian eggplants are traditionally sliced lengthwise or into circles, fried, and only then mixed with the adjika mixture. But this process is extremely time-consuming and labor-intensive. Plus, vegetable oil quickly turns black, so the pan has to be washed and re-fried frequently... 
We don't grow melons ourselves, but friends have treated us to so many that we couldn't even eat them. But that's no big deal, because I know how to use this melon to good effect. In winter, such preserves come in very handy. I've had melons both green and very ripe. I use the former... 
Carrots and beets freeze quite often, as we harvest them last. This year, we managed to harvest the crop on time, but one day we left a bag of deformed root vegetables outside, and the next evening there was a frost... This is how my carrots froze: I've already written about how to treat cracked carrots, and now... 
Hello! I'd like to tell you about what you can do with leftover carrots. Of course, they're fed to cows, pigs, and who knows what else, but we usually throw them away since we don't keep any. It just so happened this year that after digging up the carrots, we put all the misshapen and broken ones in a bag and placed them near the barn. And no one even threw them out... 
It's apple season. I made honey jam, apple jelly for pies, and prepared apple cider vinegar, which I've been storing in the cupboard. I made apple charlotte and apple pies, and treated neighbors and family to juicy apples. And again, we collected a whole bucket. So I decided to make compote from whole apples. I've never made compote from apples for the winter, especially from whole ones. Once upon a time... 
We had a huge apple harvest this year. The branches were weighed down by the fruit, and we had to stake them to keep them from breaking. By the end of August, the fruit had begun to fall, meaning they were ripe and time to harvest. Every day, there were more and more apples on the grass under the trees. We picked them, gave them away, and ate them ourselves. And then we decided that...